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^^The ITALIAN WARS
^The Sforza Duke of Milan, attempting to secure his place in Italian power
^politics, persuaded Charles VIII, King of France, to march into Italy, on to
^Naples, and claim the angevin inheritance. Over the next 50 years, 3 French
^kings, Charles, Louis XII, and Francis I, would lead armies into Italy. In  
^response, the regional powers of Italy, Venice, Milan, Florence, the Papacy, 
^and Spanish Naples, would create a shifting balance of power through a series
^of short, violent wars. The French launched their campaign with history's first
^artillery train. During the next five decades, infantry would reclaim the 
^battlefields of Europe. The Swiss mastered the pike phalanx and became the
^best mercenary troops of the era. Gonsalvo de Cordoba equipped his tercios
^with large contingents of arquebusiers, later reintroducing light cavalry and
^sword and buckler soldiers. The heathen Turks remained an ever-present
^threat in the east, and the berber pirates still harried the sea lanes. The early
^16th century battlefields would boom and roar as had no others. Smoke from
^the cannons and guns would now obscure battlefields. The length of Italy
^would see blood and death, war and strife, and new means and new ways to
^make war.
^^DO look at the Readme file.
^^SPECIAL NOTES:
^^Government switching is not permitted, pollution will not appear.
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